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The Greater Good Series

The three-book romantic thriller series follows bloodthirsty assassin Samantha Locke and her ex-Navy S.E.A.L. boyfriend Matthew Burke as they try to find out who murdered their loved ones, protect those that are still alive, and take down a rouge spy agency all for the greater good.

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The pair travel from Chicago to Italy leaving a mass of bodies in their wake, all while falling deeper in love.

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If they are able to take down Erebus, they'll have a chance for a 'normal' life.  But if they get their happy ending do they deserve it?

Trigger Warnings:

  • Rape

  • Child sexual assault/abuse

  • Sex Trafficking

  • Murder

  • Sex

  • Loss of parent

  • Alcoholism

  • Lots of Blood/Gore

Representation:

  • Bi-Racial main character (Puerto Rican/Caucasian)

  • Sapphic relationship

  • bi-sexual and lesbian characters

Troupes:

  • Enemies to Lovers 

  • Femme Fatale

  • Broken Solider

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Everything That Counts

'I’d been treating life like a chess game, forgetting to live in the moment when I had a chance. I had to change all that.'

Blake Morgan is the biggest geek in all the graduating class of 2005, possibly in all of Annapolis, maybe even the entire world.

He decides that talking to a girl, doing something unexpected, getting an F, and performing a brave act during his senior year will make him into a whole other person.

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Maybe even cool.

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Yet when he checks something off the list he hurts the few people who love him just the way he is. A loser. Is he able to repair the damage?

Is changing who you are worth it?

Can Blake be an astrophysicist and have a supermodel as a girlfriend?  

Blake Morgan is stupid enough to wreck his life, but is he smart enough to put it back together?

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Representation:

  • African-American, and Indian-American secondary characters

  • Homosexual relationship between secondary characters 

Trigger Warnings:

  • Teenage alcohol/drug use

  • Grief

  • Iraq War (conversations)

  • Attempted Sexual Assault

Troupes:

  • Friends to Lovers 

  • 'Cool' Geek

  • High School Cliques

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The Enhanced Being Series

It’s 2020, and a group of superpowered 20-something’s living in Baltimore are trying to escape their malevolent creator, Jonas, before he takes them back to The Lab for continued testing and torture. Talitha is the ‘The Girl in the Fog’, a telepath who can read your aura and erase your mind. She has escaped but needs the help of her immortal mentor to gain freedom forever. She meets Carl, a bartender with a mysterious past, who joins the group as ‘The Boy with the Glow’. After a botched rescue attempt, Nina, ‘The Girl with the Mean Punch’, must decide if sacrificing her life for a second time is worth it once she’s found love. 

Plenty of action, mystery, and romance exists between this diverse cast of LGBTQ characters in this multi-pov series. 

Trigger Warnings:

  • Attempted Sexual Assult

  • Child sexual assault/abuse

  • Murder

  • Graphic Sex

  • Loss of parent

  • Lots of Blood/Gore

  • Sexual Assult

  • Kidnapping

  • Murder

  • Graphic Sex (both sapphic and heterosexual)

  • Loss of parent

  • Lots of Blood/Gore

Representation:

  • Mexican and African-American characters

  • LGBTQAI+ characters

Troupes:

  • Friends to Lovers 

  • Second Chance Romance

  • Secretive Laboratory/Government Experiment

  • Superpowered characters

  • Time Travel

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Trigger Warnings:

  • Death

  • Vomit

  • ​Kidnapping

  • Grief

  • Suciide

  • Murder

  • Child Murderers

  • Apocalypse

  • Loss of parent/child

  • Rape

  • Necrophilia

  • Lots of Blood/Gore

Troupes:

  • Vengeful Ghosts

  • Zombies

  • Evil Aliens

  • Broken Solider

  • Jealous Friend

Representation:

  • Sex Workers as Main Characters

  • Trans Main Character

Everyone Dies
/Everyone's Dead
Horror Anthologies

Inside these collections, you’ll find stories that range from every horror sub-genre to post-apocalyptic, romance, ghosts, slasher, stalkers in the forms of flash fiction, short stories, and even poetry.

They also include Melissa’s award-winning pieces and excerpts from her novels formatted in short form.

You’ll attend a deadly wedding, get trapped in a cannibal’s basement, meet a murderous holiday icon, have two bloody ordeals with house pets, be interviewed by a priest, watch a teenage girl’s prophetic nightmare come true, and float high above the Earth in a spaceship solving the issue of the undead. find ghosts, serial killers, a homicidal husband, a young woman’s emotional death by a classmate, a soldier’s journey home from war, a man with gills, a salon full of blood-thirsty hairstylists, and so much more. 

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‘Death by Twenty-One Midnights:
a young adult horror anthology’

What happens when an award-winning horror author gets inspired by her favorite Taylor Swift album, ‘Midnights’? Twenty-one new, young adult horror stories in which each piece is an interpretation of a track from the Grammy-winning album.

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‘Full of Easter eggs for the Swifties and enough nightmares to keep horror fans wide awake.’ - Angela McDow, podcaster, The Swiftie and The Scholar 

 

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Representation:​

  • LGBTQ main characters 

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Trigger Warnings:

  • Teenage alcohol/drug use

  • Grief

  • Death 

  • DUI

  • Gore

  • Attempted Sexual Assault

Troupes

  • Ghost Boyfriend

  • Vengeful woman

  • Swifite coded

  • Evil Politician

  • Strangers to (PG-13) Lovers

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